ABSTRACT
Mental processes, including cognition, are conceived of as being essentially private, open only to first-person inspection. In the light of that, E. B. Holt's view that one does can directly see the cognitions of others in relation between their behavior and environment seems absurd. John Anderson’s influence upon Australian philosophy was profound. His influence upon psychologists at the University of Sydney was significant as well. His philosophy, influenced as it was by American New Realism, was relevant to the conceptual foundations of psychology, and Anderson directly affected a number of the university's psychologists. The physiological character of the specific response in any instance of cognition is a matter for appropriately skilled scientists to discover and describe. If cognition enables the organism to behave discriminatively to each discernable feature of the situation cognized, then the organism's total physiological response to any situation must contain components specifically tuned to each of these discernable features.
